Is it ok for me to take a second hpv test just two months after?

by Rachel on January 28, 2011

I took the hpv test and didnt get a shot. Now I am starting to think I might have caught it. Since I didnt get the shot I think I have a higher risk. I just took the test 2 months ago do you think it is ok for me to get another one this soon? What do you suggest?

I’m not quite sure how long after you’ve been exposed to hvp that it takes to show up in a test, however have you had new sexual partiners? Most of the time though women don’t even know that they have it, they don’t have any symptoms.

Also the Gardisil injection only protects you from 4 strains of the HPV virus, so even with the injection you can still obtain HPV.

An HPV test again two months after having sex with a high risk person…probably will not yield correct information. The virus may take many months to show or it can take years…never really knowing where you acquired your virus if you have had more than one sex partner.

Most often a person does not show any signs or symptom of the virus…if you are having any signs…then yes explain this to your doctor…and he may even recommend another Pap test..

The vaccine is given in 3 injection….so it would be six months before you receive protection from the 4 HPV type that it prevents…and if you had sex with any before the virus then you may have already acquire the virus…the vaccine is not as effective if given after you have engaged in sex. They are 15 high risk HPV type…and the vaccine only prevent two….so even after receiving all 3 injection….receiving the vaccine before any sex….you still can acquire an HPV type the vaccine does not prevent.

Cervical HPV infection is a common sexually transmitted infection. Most women are infected shortly after beginning their first sexual relationship,[6] with the highest prevalence seen in women under 25 years of age.[7,8] Thereafter, prevalence decreases rapidly. In young and middle-aged women, HPV infections are usually transient, at least when their duration is measured by how long the virus can be detected in cytological samples.[9,10,11] Virus might be detected only intermittently; and the concurrent or sequential detection of different HPV types is common.[12-http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/553264?rss
Following infection, HPV enters a period of quiescence that lasts about 2-12 months. Most HPV infections resolve without symptoms (subclinical) at this stage, presumably due to the emergence of the host’s cell-mediated immune response beginning approximately 3 months after infection (Figure 17). This immune response either eradicates the virus or suppresses it to non-detectable levels. Therefore, it is not yet known whether an HPV infection that appears to have cleared clinically is really eradicated or simply remains below the sensitivity level for detection with current molecular techniques.
Some HPV infections are thought to be suppressed and their genomes maintained in a long-term latent state (i.e., subclinical infection with a very small group of cells presumably maintaining infection at low DNA copy numbers). Support for a latent state for HPV infection comes from the observation that in some women genital warts can resolve spontaneously only to recur (i.e., reactivate) during pregnancy or when the immune system becomes compromised (e.g., HIV infection). It is not yet clear how commonly latency occurs in immunocompetent host